Packaging means



Jan. 1, 1929.

O. A. ROSS PACKAGING mums Filed Oct. 4, 1923 aMQ/Zm Patented Jan. 1, 1929.

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OSCAR A; ROSS, F NEW YORK; 1\T,'

PACKAGING. MEANSi;

Application filed octobcr 4, 1923; SerialiN'o. 666,429. i

This invention relates to packaging and particularly to the packaging of a plurality of identical ,unit containers. g

The principal objectof' my invention 5 is to provide. a device for the purpose specified which will occupy a comparatively sm'allspace for storage before use, be, very eficient for accomplishing. the-obj ect-desired,

extremely simple and easy to apply and quite 1O inexpensive. l

Otherobjects andadvantages will appear as th-e description of the particular physical embodiment selected to illustrate the invention progresses and the novel features will be pointed out inthe appended claims.

In, describing the invention in detail, and the particular physical embodiment selected to illustrate the invention, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters of reference designate like parts throughout the several. views and wherein: r

Fig. 1 is an end view of a package to which my improvementhas been. applied; Fig- 2,,

isa side view of the samepackage as shown by Fig.1; Fig. 3,v is. a top view of the same package as shown by Fig. lshowing a modified form of locking and tensioning device; Fig. 4, is an end viewof the package, as

' shown by'Fig. 1, after being. placed in a car- I ton; Fig. 5. is a top view of one of my (111-: plicate packaging means. 7 I I Most everybody is familiar. withv the; fact that nowdays products of. manifold kinds are delivered to the consumers in. what might be called standard or unit containers. These are desired byconsumers because of the as 'surance thereby received that the goods are of the quality previously obtained and of the 40 specified weight or volume Or -quantity.

I This form of merchandise obliges the manufa-cturer and wholesaler toship goods in alarge number of identical containers. These containers are generally of comparatively small, size and are often made of socalled, tin. Examples, perfectly familiar, are canned fruits and vegetables, and paint products. 7 safely it has heretofore been necessary to en.-

close a given number ofthem in a stout box, generally made of Wood, in order thatthe containers could be handledin assembled. The wood adds units of. convenientv size. greatly to the cost of shipping and so to the cost of the goods. Attempts have been made to ship canned goods in cardboard In order to ship these goodscartons but has beenrv found. that. all:

though the carton is sufficient: to; pit0-- test the. goods from uries. from accidental: blows, it is not suflic'ienltly rigidlto allow..the.:

assembled unit" to be handled,l.at.ileast at allli roughly. I

Applicants inventioncontemplates anrin: expensive clamping means, wli ereby thensa sembled, units approximatelya parallelopipedon, are tightly clamped together;:so.as.. to produce a comparatively rigid-structure which may be even roughly handled' wit'houtfalling. a part, so" that the aSSembIedunitmay if desired be placedv in a cardboard cartonton '70 protect from aocidentalblows andr thusrb e securely packaged for shipment. In .the drawing, Fig.-1,, 5 -designatesthe unit containers, two rowsof ithree each beingshown and by reference to FigWQLit. willibe. seen that. there are four lengthwise of -each row sothat twov dozen unitcontainers are embodieduin the package, i

I preferably dispose separators i such as.

corrugated cardboard, between the "layers and rows, so. that every agalnst arseparator. 7

My invention contemplates an. angle strip;

unit container .bears l at eachfofxfour. edges of the package at. least. a The edgesa selected may be the four.

horizontal edges, the side View ofwhich list shown in Fig; 2a In addition limay useifour. angle strips 9, one at e'ach ofithegvert-ical edges, two ofwhich are shownsiniFig. 2, and

in addition, four-angle.strips,-as 8;;.at:the.res- I mainin t horizontal .edges,-=two ofrwhichr are shown in Fig.2. I

The'anglestrips 1, have intur'ned=ends, ..as 10, vas shown in. Fig; 5, but t-heiotheranglea strips consistinerely of thetwo flange portions-one at substantiallya-right angle to the other. e

llneachiend of eachrof the angle'istrips l j I form orifices, one One, flange3 one in the;

other flange q andone in-. the intuit-ed. end;

Intwo of th'e orifices:Ifastenr inzasuitable or appropriate. manner as by'twist-ingfana end of a length ofia flexibleconnectingbody, as a wire, ribbon or cable as 3 a1id 4:,-Eig. -.z5,

preferably of metal-andithefreesend of. each connectingbody is fastened in. -acor-respond; ing orifice ina like and parallel-but reverselyv placed angle strip as shown .in. Fig. 5. L. also, likewise, connect aaflexi'blecbody as 2,.

at its two ends to each'end of an'angle strip. p i

The resulting structure is my unit clamping, means, and is shown in Fig. 5, and Idesignate the whole by A. Two of these are required for each package. The other duplicate, one needed I designate as a whole by B.

After the unit containers are arrangedas hereinbefore described in two layers of one dozen each with separators between, I place A on the top of the package and B on the bottom place angle strips 8 and 9 in position and join the connecting. bodies 2 of A with 2 of B;3 of A with?) of B; and 40f A with 4 of B. I may join the connecting bodies or wires in any preferable way as by welding or clamping or by twisting as shown in Fig. 1 or by twisting as shown in Fig. 2 or by a locking plate, as 7, having two depending somewhat curved flanges, as shown in Fig. 3.

After the wires as 2,3 and 4c are connected properly the package will-be rigid and may be handled as desired, even if roughly, and may then be enclosed'in a comparatively weak cardboard or other suitable container or en velope as 11, Fig; 4, to prevent injury by accidental blows.

In many cases the complete clamping means as outlined may be used, but in others the edge strips 8 and 9 willbe'unnecessary, if the unit containers are not of great weight.

If the containers are round then I may .slightly shorten the strips, as 1, so that the to have it understood that the form selected is merely illustrative, but does not exhaust the possible physical embodiments of the idea of means -underlying my invention.

What I claim as new and desireto secure by LettersPatent of the United States, is:

1. As a packaging clamp, two angle strips arranged in parallel relation and having inturned ends and formed with three orifices in each end, four flexible connecting bodies, 1 two engaging at opposlte ends in two of the orifices of the corresponding ends of the strips, the other two correspondingly engaged in theorifices at the other ends of the strips and two flexible connecting bodies one engaged at one end in one of the remaining orifices of a strip and the other end in the other remaining orifice of'the same strip and the remaining flexible body similarly engaged with the other strip. i v

2. As a packaging clamp, two longitudinal members adapted to be normally arranged in parallel relation, a pair of flexible members each having one end attached to one end of one of said longitudinal members and each of the other ends relatively attached to one end of the other longitudinal member, another pair of flexible members each having one end attachedto the opposite end of said first named longitudinal member and their other ends relatively attached to the opposite end of said second named longitudinal member, a third pair of flexible members, one end of said last named flexible members having its opposite end secured to the opposite end of one of said longitudinal members and the other flexible member having its opposite ends secured, to the opposite ends of the other longitudinal member substantiallyas described. I

3. As a packaging clamp, two angle strips arranged in parallel relation, four flexible connecting bodies, two engaging at opposite ends of the corresponding ends of said strips,

the other two correspondingly engaged at the other ends of the strips and two flexible connecting bodies, one end of one engaged at one end of one of the strips and the other end engaged at the other end of the same strip and the remaining flexible member similarly engaged with the other strip substantially as described. V

4. As an element of a packaging device, two

rigid longitudinal strips arranged parallel one to the other having a length equal to similar edges of opposite faces of the package to be embraced, four flexible connecting bodies, the ends of two of the bodies being connected to one end of one of the strips I and the opposite ends to the similar end of the other strip, the other two correspondingly engaged at the other ends of the strips, and two flexible connecting bodies, one end of one engaged at one end of one of the strips and the other end engaged at the other end of the same strip and the remaining flexible body similarly engaged with the other strip.

5. In combination with a package, of an envelope comprising two similar devices each the package, each device comprising two rigid deviceiembracing substantially one-half of 3 longitudinal strips arranged parallel one to the other having a length equal to similar edges of opposite faces of the package, four the bodies being connected to one end of one flexible connecting bodies, the ends of two of i of the strips and the opposite ends to the the strips and the other end engaged at the other end of the same strip,the remaining flexible body similarlyengaged with the other strip, and means for locking the devices togcther to form a tensloned envelope surrounding the package. 7 OSCAR A ROSS 

